Topic started by raghukr (@ 206.14.76.190) on Tue May 25 02:47:42 EDT 2004.
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Well this question was posted jus to judge the movie.I saw this movie last sunday.The first half of the movie was good but the second half was dragging and Manirathnam didnt find timwe to complete the movie properly.The movie was missing a classical touch off manirathnam...The BGM by Rahman was good..the usual aroma of manirathanam movie was missing in this...till before this AE if u could watch mani's movie even without knowing that he was the director u could easily say that the movie was a manitrathanam's...let it be Anjali,Thalapathi,nayagan or Alaipayuthaey...but in AE that seems missing.Let it be the sharp dialogues /photography or screenplay...all these seems missing which is not upto Manirathnam's standard...we expected a more from him.According to Manirathanam the story was first built around Surya's character...but in AE Maddy has more performing scenes than Surya...i think the director lost his track somewhere in the midst off the story..Please post your view wherther Manirathnam has done justice to AE when compared to his previous?

Responses:

• From: kaithiri (@ cache-loh-ac06.proxy.aol.com) on: Sun May 30 05:47:14 EDT 2004
  
  yeh
  
  
• From: anesh (@ 192.174.22.220) on: Mon May 31 05:21:12 EDT 2004
  
  duh
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 61.95.227.150) on: Tue Jun 1 03:47:30 EDT 2004
  
  :-)
  
  first of all why we have to compare this movie to his previous ones?
  
  manirathnam's style is to present a movie that is unexpected, and he had done the same in AE too... :-))
  
  however, it was not a bad movie. worth seeing. :-) ( may be i liked the movie because i am watching a movie after a very looooooooooooong time...)
  
  :-)
  
  
• From: raghukr (@ 206.14.76.190) on: Tue Jun 1 06:18:07 EDT 2004
  
  U mean to say this was a unexpected movie....the flash back style is like that in the Alaipaydhae...the story unfolded like everybody expected...nothing special in this movie except the BGM...mark of mani is missing...Suresh i think u have to watch a lot of movies released recently to compare this movie's standard with the others.
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 61.95.227.150) on: Tue Jun 1 07:22:51 EDT 2004
  
  :-)
  
  raghukr,
  
  // Suresh i think u have to watch a lot of movies released recently to compare this movie's standard with the others.//
  
  - :-)) you are right... nowadays i dont watch movies much. just one or two movies all the way, like boys, pithamagan, lord or the rings, virumandi, gilli, aayuthaezuthu. the problem is i liked all the movies i saw... LOL !!!!!!!
  
  but, i remember, i have seen ALL the tamil movies of manirathnam. and if you badly HAVE TO compare this movie with any other movie then, aayutha ezuthu is not as bad as his thiruda thiruda, or iruvar... that is what i felt. it is an okay movie. that is all.
  
  :-)
  
  
  
• From: raghukr (@ 206.14.76.190) on: Tue Jun 1 08:03:51 EDT 2004
  
  Suresh,
  the movies u mentioned "thiruda thiruda and Iruvar"...the movie was a bad one but the songs were 100% more well composed than AE..hope u accept this ...song like Konjum nilave or Narumugaiyae is far too deadly and pleasing to compare with an ordinary song like goodbye nanba in AE..
  i think u havent seen the movie autograph...the story and the screenplay in that was well composed by cheran..i am not comparing cheran and mani...i jus want to say that if a story and screenplay is well composed that movie will definitely be a successful one..mani lost his track in this movie also..so now u can ADD AE in your list of thiruda thiruda and iruvar...to be a not so good movie..
  :-(
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 61.95.227.150) on: Tue Jun 1 10:04:34 EDT 2004
  
  :-)
  
  raghukr,
  
  // so now u can ADD AE in your list of thiruda thiruda and iruvar...to be a not so good movie.. //
  
  - LOL....!!!!!!!!
  
  yeah. i agree the songs in thiruda thiruda and iruvar were far better than aayuthaezuththu. even the presentation was better. but, i feel something was lacking in those movies and i really want to know what it is...
  
  but ayuthaezuththu is just a plain story. no complications. just a simple story from manirathinam. okay... let he have this too in his list. so what..? :-))
  
  :-)
  
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 61.95.227.150) on: Tue Jun 1 10:10:48 EDT 2004
  
  :-)
  
  autograph - yeah... i am trying to see that movie. i myself want to see and judge it. because, generally i dont like cheran's movie and this mindset was the obstacle for me not seeing this one. :-) but sure this time, i will see his movie.
  
  :-)
  
  
• From: winnie (@ 212.138.47.26) on: Wed Jun 2 18:15:02 EDT 2004
  
  AE-....the worst movie i ever saw made by Manirathnam.........what a yuck movie.....it's useless
  
  
• From: raghukr (@ 206.14.76.190) on: Thu Jun 3 04:22:26 EDT 2004
  
  I bet u suresh...some of the scenes in the autograph really takes you to your past...u will feel that some incidents have happened in your life...dont have any biased feeling on Cheran ..go and watch this movie...u will definitely roll back your past atleast ones.
  Regarding Thiruda Thiruda...2 movies were first narrated to Rajni..one was Thiruda Thiruda and the other was Dalapathi..Rajni picked up Dalapathi...if rajni would have acted in that film may b the movie would have run bcos of the star dom..
  Regarding Iruvar...it was more built like a documentary on KK and MGR rather than as a movie...that made the movie flop.
  Hope i was able to let u know what was lacking in the 2 movies...
  
  
• From: Agent J (@ proxy2.iitm.ac.in) on: Thu Jun 3 10:59:34 EDT 2004
  
  AE is a gr8 movie.Much better than any of those stupid movies which do well in tamil like Autograph(this movie is total crap).And as for the songs they go well in sync with the movie.On the whole i will give this movie a complete 10 for the brilliant sound and camera work.
  
  Raghukr how in the world did u ever think of comparing a movie like Autograph with AE.Autograph is at the rock bottom and AE at the top.
  
  
  
  
• From: Ganesan (@ 144.92.26.6) on: Thu Jun 3 14:54:27 EDT 2004
  
  Ayudha ezhuthu is not even considered as a movie. manirathnam is going down. read the link
  http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13489822
  
  ayudha ezhuthu is the biggest flop of the year. autograph cannot be compared with a flop movie like ayudha ezhuthu. autograph is much much better than other released movies. commercially gilli & autograph made money to producers, distributors. dont even talk about ayutha ezhuthu, because disributors are going to curse manirathnam because of giving one of the worst movie of the year
  
  
• From: Raghukr (@ 206.14.76.190) on: Fri Jun 4 00:56:25 EDT 2004
  
  AgentJ,
  I am laso a diehard fan of mani...i was very disappointed with the way mani has made this AE..The story line was like a amateur stuff..he is not able to know how he want to finish the movie...really losing track in the last half an hour...if u give 10 on 10 for this movie then how much will u give for mouna ragam,nayagan,anjali,dalapathi...100 on 10.....thats really funny...hahahahaha
  :-O
  
  
• From: murphy (@ ) on: Fri Jun 18 02:29:08
  
  who u r 2 criticise the great trend setter
  u know the difficulties when u just going 2 shoot a single frame
  
  
  

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